Master of Nine Stars

After they cleaned up the room, Yang Chunxi suggested, ”I’ll go with you. Let’s go test out the Lotus Petals.”

”Okay.” Rong Taotao went over to the collapsed bed, carefully hoisted it onto his shoulder, and headed for the door.

Behind him, Rong Ling also floated out, carrying a piece of broken wood bigger than itself.

Yang Chunxi followed silently. In the hallway, she saw a few Little Souls secretly watching from the west end.

Yang Chunxi had already arranged new rooms for them to stay in for the night. They probably still didn’t know that Li Ziyi from the men’s dorm and Fan Lihua from the women’s dorm were already gone.

Thrown out the window by Si Huan Nian, that is...

Sun Xingyu asked with concern, ”Taotao, how are you?”

Jiao Tengda scratched his head, a strange look on his face. ”Your advancement to Soul Captain was pretty noisy. You even broke the bed?”

Rong Taotao gave an embarrassed laugh. Looking at Gao Lingwei, who was silently watching him, he gave a slight tilt of his head, gesturing toward the stairs.

Although Rong Taotao’s movement was small, Gao Lingwei understood immediately and started walking out.

Yang Chunxi also spoke up, ”All of you, go back to your rooms. We can talk about whatever it is tomorrow.”

With that, she also caught up to Rong Taotao and Gao Lingwei.

The group went down to the first floor and pushed open the main doors of the Martial Arts Hall. Rong Taotao placed the shattered bed next to the trash cans, then unsummoned Rong Ling back into his body with a soft sigh.

Yang Chunxi suddenly said, ”Taotao.”

”Hm?”

Yang Chunxi: ”Based on your description of the Prison Lotus just now, I don’t think it’s a good idea for you to live with Coach Si anymore.”

”Yeah.” Rong Taotao nodded. Led by Yang Chunxi, they walked towards the stadium on the northeast side of the campus.

That was where the campus selection tournament had been held. It was just a green field, wide and open, which would also minimize the risk of accidental injury.

Besides, it was already past midnight, so there probably wouldn’t be any students lingering there.

As they walked, Rong Taotao suggested, ”I’ll move back into the men’s dorm, then.”

But Yang Chunxi was worried. ”Isn’t that still a little too close?”

Rong Taotao said reassuringly, ”Don’t worry, Sister Chunxi. The Prison Lotus can indeed connect with my mind and send me its emotions, but those are its thoughts, its desires.

”I’m the one in control.”

”Hmm...” Yang Chunxi pondered for a moment before silently nodding.

The trio headed east and arrived at the empty green field. Yang Chunxi summoned her Snow Night Shock and scanned the dark field. ”Ling Wei, go turn on the lights. They’re over there.”

”Okay.” Gao Lingwei summoned her Snowball Cat, only to discover someone was actually sitting in the stands.

At this hour, only the streetlights at Pine Soul Soul Martial University were on; the stadium lights had been turned off long ago.

However, as soon as the Snowball Cat appeared, it began searching the area and spotted the person sitting in the darkness in the southwest section of the stands.

”Coach Si.” Gao Lingwei raised an eyebrow slightly.

Earlier, while standing guard in the Martial Arts Hall corridor, Gao Lingwei had seen Si Huan Nian leave in a hurry. She hadn’t expected to find her sitting here in a daze.

Just as Gao Lingwei turned on the stadium’s floodlights, the Snowball Cat transmitted another real-time image to her.

Li Ziyi was here too...

The young man was on the eastern half of the field, shadowboxing.

”CLICK.” ”CLICK.”

A few seconds later, the lights finally flickered on, and the pitch-black stadium became brightly lit.

Gao Lingwei strode over. Li Ziyi stopped his ”air punching” and turned around, asking quizzically, ”What’s up?”

Gao Lingwei gestured toward Yang Chunxi and Rong Taotao. ”Taotao is going to test out his Lotus Petals. You should go up to the stands first so you don’t get caught in the crossfire.”

”Oh.” Li Ziyi’s face showed no reaction, but inside, his mind was in turmoil.

He had, of course, been following Rong Taotao’s matches and had seen him use the Lotus Petals a few times in Fengtian City and Imperial Capital City.

But those uses... the scale had been very small. It was nothing more than using the Lotus Petals as ”blades” to assassinate enemies.

But now, on a field this large, Gao Lingwei was telling him to go up to the stands?

’What is Rong Taotao planning to do?’

Li Ziyi couldn’t help but think back to when the Ice Soul Guide led its army to invade Pine Soul Soul Martial.

Of course, he had only heard the stories of the Ice Soul Guide wreaking havoc in the Martial Arts Arena afterward; he hadn’t witnessed it himself.

A thought struck Li Ziyi. ’Does this mean that today, I’ll have the honor of seeing how the Ice Soul Guide of old used to fight?’

While Li Ziyi was over here imagining the potential spectacle, Rong Taotao, on the other side, was putting himself in the Ice Soul Guide’s shoes and personally experiencing that very battle!

On the western half of the field, a strange light glinted in Yang Chunxi’s beautiful eyes as she pulled Rong Taotao into her Illusion World.

And in that world, Rong Taotao now stood shoulder-to-shoulder with Yang Chunxi, watching from an outsider’s perspective as the Ice Soul Guide of the past wreaked havoc.

Rong Taotao saw Yang Chunxi rescuing students, he saw Si Huan Nian protecting everyone, and at the very end, he saw the explosive Li Lie clashing with the Ice Soul Guide’s sky-filling Cyan Lotuses...

’Li Lie Wine, the eternal GOAT!’

’As expected of a middle-aged man with his charisma maxed out. That was just too epic!?’

Yang Chunxi did her best to recreate the scene from back then. Inevitably, Rong Taotao also saw a familiar figure.

The figure with a deathly pale face and crimson eyes, who looked completely at a loss.

Xu Taiping...

Although they had only spent a short time together, Rong Taotao found it truly difficult to forget this special, humanoid Snow Realm Soul Beast.